Polar bears, limbless lizards and bush babies...

[_asbestosman]

Take 20 to 50 million species and figure it out any realistic way you want.

"Realistic", huh? Since when are talking donkeys, turning water into wine and rising from the dead realistic as you mean that word?

[_asbestosman]

I heard something about God making all the animals hibernate. I guess it was some kind of cyrogenic preservation like with Hans Solo was put in carbonite. With God, all things are possible including super cool Star Wars technology.

I wonder if Noah had a light saber too. I'm certain he could use the force.

In you heart, you know none of it happened ABman.

Sure it did.

It was just a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

[_Ren]

Nope, it was actually equipped with a Tardis to make the inside bigger than the outside.

A miraculous tardis effect?
...I've gotta hand it to ya - that's genius..!

[_Jersey Girl]

Jersey Girl.

You want a whole ecosystem and mating on the boat too? How much wetland was on the boat. How much prairy Old Testament jungle?
How many plants to grow and feed and be eaten. Pollun, bees, slime mold, fungi, mites?
Were does the dung go? How does a polar bear survive in the same environment as snake or frog?

Hmmm...been totally down this road before...how many species existed back then?

[_huckelberry]

My EV view, which likely horrifies some EV is that the story is pure unadulterated thoolical parable. No Noah no diminutive flood just story. Period.

I can go through a process of what if mirales did it. I think one has to leave the literal story behind to negotiate the problems that way. Actually the other well known problem of arbitrary literalism, death before Adam is to my mind more theologically important and the evidence even more overwhelmingly against reality fitting a literal reading of the Genesis story.

For me evidence leaves the flood story at best, allowing miricles, bizarrely improbable. The idea of no death before Adam is such a total rent in the fabric of reality as to approach very close to being absolutely disproven.

Of course there are times I wonder myself if I am true blue EV, I cannot find a thrill in imagining God drowning everybody but a handful. I am perfectly happy that all the evidence is that no such event happened.

[_barrelomonkeys]

Bush baby?

[_Doctor Steuss]

Nope, it was actually equipped with a Tardis to make the inside bigger than the outside.

A miraculous tardis effect?
...I've gotta hand it to ya - that's genius..!

I think it's a re-tardis idea. (nyuck, nyuck).

There's also the issue of enough water (if all the ice were to melt, we'd only end up with about 220+/- feet of sea level increase).

[_Tarski]

Noah had only seven days to load up the Ark ( Gen. 7:4-10). If only 16,000 animals were on the Ark, then one animal must have been loaded every 38 seconds with no breaks. There really would have had to be orders of magnitude more animals to load if we take the Bible literally.


Why, oh why, isn't the best explanation that this is just an old myth? Come on folks.

Plausibility? Does it count for nothing?

[_Ren]

I think it's a re-tardis idea.

That's a funny rem-ark! Doctor!
Ok -I did my best. Gimme a break!

[_moksha]

Why did you bring the Book of Mormon into this?